I couldn't find any other reference to this about turn by Samsung - apologies if it's been posted before.
Source: http://www.itproportal.com/2012/05/23/samsung-now-says-galaxy-s-iii-wont-support-dc-hspa/
My main reason for pre-ordering an SIII to replace my Note was the support for dual channel HSPA; I'm on O2 UK, and use my phone predominantly in central London, so the possibility of support for 42Mbps throughput is appealing - and I would never have agreed a 2 year contract without this 'future-proofing' feature.
I'm not sure whether the change of specification is due to marketing incompetence, production cost, quality control, firmware readiness or something more sinister, but none of these reflect well on Samsung. The fact that this has been quietly removed from the spec just a week before shipping is even worse.
Oh well
Did they ever officially claim they did?
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Did they ever officially claim they did?
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There was a new article somewhere saying it did.
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i dont remember reading any spec sheet with dc hspa
DC-HSPA Claims 42 throughout? Or Mbps? A device is only as capable as it can be, or worse. If the hardware is unchanged from what you had signed up for and it is truly incapable of DualCell ... you'd more upset to have it "with" it.
Flip side, a. Device hardware is unchanged, just "support" is removed.... Do some pushups! Is time for a workaround!
Flip b. Hardware change, we're boned for neutrino speed and have to settle for light. ..
Edit: i love that article for one reason, the person that wrote it is not on xda.
Buy the phone, internationally if you have to (we had to do it too, for a lot ), modify it appropriately...
Are we not just talking about dc-? Isn't that rel7 tech? I'm currently trying t... Oh nvm ... That's a pipedream. But I've tripled my WiMAX (you don't want it) speeds using things like "tricking" my phone into thinking i was using cdma and this "LteforCDMAmode" that was in ril.dump but i can't seem to replicate it or find info on it...
Have a little faith in the community, bro
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Samsung Sweden claims that the nordic sgs3 is supporting it
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Kebetz said:
DC-HSPA Claims 42 throughout? Or Mbps? A device is only as capable as it can be, or worse. If the hardware is unchanged from what you had signed up for and it is truly incapable of DualCell ... you'd more upset to have it "with" it.
Flip side, a. Device hardware is unchanged, just "support" is removed.... Do some pushups! Is time for a workaround!
Flip b. Hardware change, we're boned for neutrino speed and have to settle for light. ..
Edit: i love that article for one reason, the person that wrote it is not on xda.
Buy the phone, internationally if you have to (we had to do it too, for a lot ), modify it appropriately...
Are we not just talking about dc-? Isn't that rel7 tech? I'm currently trying t... Oh nvm ... That's a pipedream. But I've tripled my WiMAX (you don't want it) speeds using things like "tricking" my phone into thinking i was using cdma and this "LteforCDMAmode" that was in ril.dump but i can't seem to replicate it or find info on it...
Have a little faith in the community, bro
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I did not understand one thing this person said...
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I did not understand one thing this person said...
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You and me both.
battletank said:
I couldn't find any other reference to this about turn by Samsung - apologies if it's been posted before.
Source: http://www.itproportal.com/2012/05/23/samsung-now-says-galaxy-s-iii-wont-support-dc-hspa/
My main reason for pre-ordering an SIII to replace my Note was the support for dual channel HSPA; I'm on O2 UK, and use my phone predominantly in central London, so the possibility of support for 42Mbps throughput is appealing - and I would never have agreed a 2 year contract without this 'future-proofing' feature.
I'm not sure whether the change of specification is due to marketing incompetence, production cost, quality control, firmware readiness or something more sinister, but none of these reflect well on Samsung. The fact that this has been quietly removed from the spec just a week before shipping is even worse.
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who cares its rubbish anyway i had a note using that and it was like 10mb its CRAP wait for 4g its just aroung the corner
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I did not understand one thing this person said...
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I suppose cutting and pasting his lengthy post helps you. :banghead:
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T-Mobile U.S. uses DC-HSPA. Their refarming away from AWS so there's a chance their version of the SGS3 will have quad-band support. If so, that could be an alternative.
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T-Mobile U.S. uses DC-HSPA. Their refarming away from AWS so there's a chance their version of the SGS3 will have quad-band support. If so, that could be an alternative.
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that is true we will find out when we get it
To be honest i dont really care. The chances of the networks actually delivering anything like that much in real throughput is zero. They struggle to deliver even 1Mbps most of the time for more than a minute without the connection crapping out.
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Did they ever officially claim they did?
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http://www.itproportal.com/2012/05/18/samsung-galaxy-s3-will-support-42mbps-dc-hspa/
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I suppose cutting and pasting his lengthy post helps you. :banghead:
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It's not very easy editing text on a phone on the pooper when a coworker is banging on the door demanding to hurry up because they habe diarrhea.
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It's not very easy editing text on a phone on the pooper when a coworker is banging on the door demanding to hurry up because they habe diarrhea.
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Wtf man?
rovex said:
To be honest i dont really care. The chances of the networks actually delivering anything like that much in real throughput is zero. They struggle to deliver even 1Mbps most of the time for more than a minute without the connection crapping out.
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rovex said:
To be honest i dont really care. The chances of the networks actually delivering anything like that much in real throughput is zero. They struggle to deliver even 1Mbps most of the time for more than a minute without the connection crapping out.
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Yep... I agree with this. It's all very well having the capability but o2's back end network is in no shape to deliver
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i would suppose the 3.5G is a small step towards 4G really. And since 4G hasnt even begun in the UK, and it will take a while until you are in a position to use 4G in most areas of the country, then id say, we would have to get the next samsung phone in 2-3 years with it.
Besides, LTE tends to drain the batteries quite fast as well, and to me it would be more valuable in a tablet rather than a phone.
How much browsing can you do on a mobile(even 4.8inch screen) before you say: god i have a headache staring at this phone already!
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Read into this what you want. I had made a request for 2.6.35 source code for the SPH-D700 on Samsung's opensource site and this is the response I got this evening. Nothing concrete, might be a couple days, "some days" or couple months.
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from 대외오픈소스창구 <[email protected]>
reply-to [email protected]
to [email protected]
date Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:09 PM
subject [Notification from Samsung Open Source Release Center]
mailed-by samsung.com
[SAMSUNG OSRC COMMENTS DELIVERY NOTIFICATION]
Dear Customer, Thank you for your interesting and advice on our product.
Samsung''s official Froyo version is not published.
Please wait some days until public release.
And you will be able to download official Froyo version on kies.
DK28 is not official version.
Best regards.
----- Original Message -----
Sender: Daryel V****([email protected])
Date: 2011-01-19 03:26:44(GMT+09:00)
Request updated source for kernel 2.6.35.x or newer on SPH-D700.
Samsung Open Source Release Center
http://opensource.samsung.com
Even with the source code, there will be work to do to get everything working in AOSP or CyanogenMod.
-Daryel
@daryelv
at least you got a response and an ok one
We don't even have Kies here in the US though..right? :/
That sounds like a translation from a korean script. It sounds like to me it was loosely translated. I'm not going to read into it for that reason
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XtaC318 said:
We don't even have Kies here in the US though..right? :/
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If it does go up on Kies, I can probably get it from my brother who lives in Seoul.
mxcoldhit said:
That sounds like a translation from a korean script. It sounds like to me it was loosely translated. I'm not going to read into it for that reason
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Pretty much a typical canned response which is all we expect from Samsung.
-Daryel
I just wanted to know why nobody uses the sprint galaxy tab source at all for froyo roms. possibly kernel migh be very similar to the epic 4g kernel outside of the screen and keyboard. It is basically a giant galaxy s.
victorythagr8 said:
I just wanted to know why nobody uses the sprint galaxy tab source at all for froyo roms. possibly kernel migh be very similar to the epic 4g kernel outside of the screen and keyboard. It is basically a giant galaxy s.
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You are leaving out the fact that the tab is 3g only. There are too many factors that differ between the epic and the tab.
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You are leaving out the fact that the tab is 3g only. There are too many factors that differ between the epic and the tab.
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Who cares about sprint 4g?90 percent(maybe more) of sprint's users dont have 4g and wont have it for another 2-3 years.
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Who cares about sprint 4g?90 percent(maybe more) of sprint's users dont have 4g and wont have it for another 2-3 years.
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Yes... But then you are going to have the other "10%" *****ing that 4g was left out. You'd be piecing something together for the sake of well... Not too sure what exactly you'd be piecing it together for. There are already a hell of a lotta existing roms out from fantastic Devs that do everything that the rom is capable of doing sans overclock, battery life and a few extras without leaving out a primary function of the phone Just cuz it's not currently available to everyone doesn't mean that it's not a function that can be removed for the fun of it. IMO we'd be taking a huge step backward.
Not being able to overclock and undervolt to me is a huge step backward. Truthfully, for me, (cause I have 4g in my area) I'm torn between the two. The ONLY reason I don't just go back to 2.1 is because of the hardcoded gps accuracy.
cd's or tapes?
lviv73 said:
Who cares about sprint 4g?90 percent(maybe more) of sprint's users dont have 4g and wont have it for another 2-3 years.
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Just because you don't doesn't mean no one has it.
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Just because you don't doesn't mean no one has it.
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I have it and it's no faster than 3g.
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Yes... But then you are going to have the other "10%" *****ing that 4g was left out. You'd be piecing something together for the sake of well... Not too sure what exactly you'd be piecing it together for. There are already a hell of a lotta existing roms out from fantastic Devs that do everything that the rom is capable of doing sans overclock, battery life and a few extras without leaving out a primary function of the phone Just cuz it's not currently available to everyone doesn't mean that it's not a function that can be removed for the fun of it. IMO we'd be taking a huge step backward.
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Those 10% need to realize how hard this stuff actually is an accept it. Some with 4g would be willing to sacrifice the speeds for phone improvements.
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Lol I have wifi and I really don't use my phone much when I'm out... But it would be nice to experience it... They testing it out here in phoenix but in a very small area
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kynetx said:
I have it and it's no faster than 3g.
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Weird. When I was in the LA area around New Year's, I was able to use 4G for a while and also tethered my wife's laptop with it, and I thought it was way faster than my 3G speeds. Maybe you have a bad connection?
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I have it and it's no faster than 3g.
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I call BS on this statement. I'm in NYC, the most difficult market in the US for good data speeds due to network congestion, and 4G is consistently, at minimum, 10x the speed of 3G. Not to mention latencly is usually 90% less.
kynetx said:
I have it and it's no faster than 3g.
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Maybe not for you. For me it's 4 - 7mbps down and 1.5 up. My 3g is in the neighborhood of 300 Kbps down and up. Huge difference.
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I have it and it's no faster than 3g.
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You are full of ****! Go troll somewhere else. Anyone who has 4g knows that is a false statement. Saying that the difference is night and day would be an understatement!
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I have poor 4g coverage at home but when I'm about 10-15 miles west of here I pick up strong 4g from Philadelphia. It blazing compared to 3g.. especially upstream speeds. I had pics uploading to Facebook in the blink of an eye.
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When I have 4G, I usually get 6-9mbps down. I even got 4G deep inside a school building yesterday with my Epic. It was very cool. Didn't have 3G at all, but the WiMAX signal was strong and I got 8mbps down on a speed test.
4G is for real.
Seriously. Everytime I open up my xda app all I see is Ginger this Ginger that..for every phone but ours. Who else is gets annoyed by this? I know it makes me cringe everytime!
Of course no blame goes to our devs who are fantastic. I applaud them for doing what they have done with Sammy's seemingly awful coding (good luck Kaos!) Wish they spent as much time and money on their software as they do on hardware! (which consequently is brilliant!)
End late night rant.
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I know it sucks! But by the sounds of it we might get Froyo tomorrow...Not getting my hopes up. I wish Samsung/VZW would update the fascinate from 2.1 to 2.3.3
I don't mind honestly... Just more of a reason for me to get an iPhone
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I have to ask honestly and flame if you must, when you buy a phone with eclair, should you not assume you will never get anything else? Were you given a contract by verizon or samsung stating if you bought a specific phone, it was guaranteed to be further upgraded?
Just my 2 cents.
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^^^^^^
good day.
Legato525 said:
I have to ask honestly and flame if you must, when you buy a phone with eclair, should you not assume you will never get anything else? Were you given a contract by verizon or samsung stating if you bought a specific phone, it was guaranteed to be further upgraded?
Just my 2 cents.
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Yes we were told we would get the froyo in a couple of months but now almost a year has passed.
It doesn't help the fact that international sgs just got the official gingerbread.
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Complain to Verizon and Samsung if you have an issue. Complaining here isn't going to get anything accomplished.
Nope, it sure isn't. Remember...I am always watching....
Legato525 said:
I have to ask honestly and flame if you must, when you buy a phone with eclair, should you not assume you will never get anything else? Were you given a contract by verizon or samsung stating if you bought a specific phone, it was guaranteed to be further upgraded?
Just my 2 cents.
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I hate this kind of response.
When I buy a phone, upgrades and updates are part of my buying decision. They're probably part of yours too. If there's a phone with a 900mhz processor and locked to 2.1, and an identical phone but with an 800mhz processor that will be supported for years, I will choose the latter. Whether you like it or not, when the operating system updates this quickly, updates are a feature.
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Electrodeath0 said:
I hate this kind of response.
When I buy a phone, upgrades and updates are part of my buying decision. They're probably part of yours too. If there's a phone with a 900mhz processor and locked to 2.1, and an identical phone but with an 800mhz processor that will be supported for years, I will choose the latter. Whether you like it or not, when the operating system updates this quickly, updates are a feature.
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I think the point here is that there never is any promise or guarantee of that support and I'm sorry but a sales person's word is no indication by any means. When we buy our phones we buy them as they are. To gripe about Samsung or Verizon's lack of promptness is ignorant and really annoying after seeing it so much. Normally you can trust the talented developers here to do better work anyway. The best approach is to wait patiently and support them in anyway you can whether it be logcats or donations.
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Legato525 said:
I have to ask honestly and flame if you must, when you buy a phone with eclair, should you not assume you will never get anything else? Were you given a contract by verizon or samsung stating if you bought a specific phone, it was guaranteed to be further upgraded?
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This is my first Android phone (I'd previously been on an old dumb phone made by Samsung, and it'd been reliable the for all the years), and the reps said that Froyo was coming 'soon', and Samsung had already began rolling Froyo out for the Samsung Galaxy S in Europe a few weeks before- I figured it'd be at most a few weeks, not realizing that 'Galaxy S' did not include any of the phones sold in the US!
I was also fooled about the quality of the GPS, when I was first testing it out, I always thought it locked instantly, because I was always around wifi (and Google's Location services have wifi routers geolocated down fairly well). And when I wasn't around WiFi, I saw the big blue circle and assumed that was the GPS just slowly loading, not Verizon's cellular triangulation doing all the work while the GPS was just robbing my battery and doing nothing with it.
At the time, I was hesitant to go with Android. I knew that the devices were generally fairly low quality, while getting slow updates... but the iPhone hadn't been announced on Verizon, and I wanted to do application development, which is massively cheaper to get into on Android than the iPhone ($25 vs $100 + a mac).
Next device will be from a reputable manufacturer, I've learned my lesson.
I know what phone I bought. Thanks for your concern though. Also our phone actually was guaranteed to be further upgraded quite sometime ago.
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Complain to Verizon and Samsung if you have an issue. Complaining here isn't going to get anything accomplished.
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I'm not complaining at all, in fact I don't see one word in the OP that looks like a complaint. Just asking a simple question if other people cry a bit inside when they see gingerbread in the "latest" category all the time.. excluding our phone.
As previously stated, for the sake of amazing devs I wish Samsung didn't code things like imbeciles.
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As previously stated, for the sake of amazing devs I wish Samsung didn't code things like imbeciles.
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I don't think there's anyone who would disagree with this. It's honestly disappointing how much more talented the devs seem to be when compared to Samsung's team. Good for the devs but you'd think a multi-billion dollar company could hire some better programmers.
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We are finally getting sources for froyo, and now you are already complaining that we don't have gingerbread???
Sheesh.
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Also our phone actually was guaranteed to be further upgraded quite sometime ago.
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Where is this "guarantee"?
And like many have said before, sales reps, service reps, and tech reps don't count. They are only trying to sell you a phone and a contract, or placate you with the current setup you already have.
Neither Samsung nor Verizon have officially said the Fascinate will be upgraded.
I'm not complaining about not having gingerbread. Like i said earlier its just annoying seeing it all over the place when opening up my XDA premium app.
(please don't respond to this with a childish comment saying "well don't use your XDA app then dohh") we arent 5 y.o. here
Kevin Gossett said:
Where is this "guarantee"?
And like many have said before, sales reps, service reps, and tech reps don't count. They are only trying to sell you a phone and a contract, or placate you with the current setup you already have.
Neither Samsung nor Verizon have officially said the Fascinate will be upgraded.
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simple google search proves my point. If you want a direct quote i guess i can search more, but for me this suffices.
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=16730&news=Google+Android+OS+2.2+Samsung+Galaxy+S+Epic+4G+Vibrant+Fascinate+Froyo
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I'm not complaining about not having gingerbread. Like i said earlier its just annoying seeing it all over the place when opening up my XDA premium app.
(please don't respond to this with a childish comment saying "well don't use your XDA app then dohh") we arent 5 y.o. here
simple google search proves my point. If you want a direct quote i guess i can search more, but for me this suffices.
http://www.brighthand.com/default.a...sung+Galaxy+S+Epic+4G+Vibrant+Fascinate+Froyo
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That article is almost a year old. Therefore it proves nothing other than hurting your argument rather than helping it.
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Electrodeath0 said:
I hate this kind of response.
When I buy a phone, upgrades and updates are part of my buying decision. They're probably part of yours too. If there's a phone with a 900mhz processor and locked to 2.1, and an identical phone but with an 800mhz processor that will be supported for years, I will choose the latter. Whether you like it or not, when the operating system updates this quickly, updates are a feature.
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I agree with you, but my point to the OP is, did anyone tell you the fascinate would get 2.3? I agree that they had a press release when the phone released about 2.2, but I have not heard anyone at samsung say anything about a fascinate getting 2.3. Would it be nice, ya. But does samsung have some moral resposibility to make non critical updates to the phone? No. I will never argue the froyo point, I was speaking in generalities.
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I think you accidentally a word
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That article is almost a year old. Therefore it proves nothing other than hurting your argument rather than helping it.
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How does this hurt my point? No matter how old an article is a promise is a promise. And I'm sorry I didn't spend the time to find an article with a more acceptable time table.
Also in regards to gingerbread, Sammy did say that the "entire" galaxy line would be updated to android 2.3
I can find that article as well if you really need it
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In spite of a few gripes (let's face it, no phone can suit everyone) the Galaxy Note must be the best phone ever made. It has no major issues and is small enough to be used as a phone and big enough to be used as a Tablet. It is also at the forefront technically and will soon be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich.
No. Its just bigger and it has a pen.
And it will not soon be updated to ICS.
But it is the phone I like most, and I have had a few.
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No. Its just bigger and it has a pen.
And it will not soon be updated to ICS.
But it is the phone I like most, and I have had a few.
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Lol, which phone do you you think is better??
it is amazing.
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No. Its just bigger and it has a pen.
And it will not soon be updated to ICS.
But it is the phone I like most, and I have had a few.
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You seem very hung up on this point and are using a lack of official statement to conclude that no update will be forthcoming. Has any manufacturer put a time table on updates. HTC announced a few phones today that will be upgraded to ICS, but put no timetable on the process.
I'm willing to be patient and see. At worst, CM9 should be available, and if someone can extract the s-pen apks then that might be good enough.
I think its the fastest/highest resolution phone available at the moment?
Certainly it has the largest screen, but that does not automatically grant it the "best" title. Some would even consider the size a negative.
Its lack of NFC and a notification LED are among its draw backs. The s-pen is awesome and the fact that its optional makes it only a positive.
In the end it all comes down to preference. That said, it would certainly get my vote for best phone ever.
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You seem very hung up on this point and are using a lack of official statement to conclude that no update will be forthcoming.
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I am "hung up" on people believing things "for sure, soon, confirmed, etc", while there is no official statement, just rumors spread by traffic hungry bloggers.
ICS would be nice, but don't count on it.
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Almost every new phone that is released these days is the best ever.
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Well, it's the best phone for me right now
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Well, it's the best phone for me right now
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Hear, hear
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No, because I can't use it on my network. I wish the manufacturers and carriers would cut of the bs already
n25philly said:
No, because I can't use it on my network. I wish the manufacturers and carriers would cut of the bs already
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Why can't you switch networks? That's what I'm going to do to get this phone. Gotta love competition.
To quote Homer*, "Best ever, so far"
*from the Simpsons Movie
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Why can't you switch networks? That's what I'm going to do to get this phone. Gotta love competition.
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Because I get my cell service through work. If I switch it means I pay for it. I would pay for the phone if it was compatible with T-Mobile. I could really use a new phone too, so I'm hoping someone else comes out with a similar type phone.
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To quote Homer*, "Best ever, so far"
*from the Simpsons Movie
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The best since the last one and until the next one.
Apparently this message was too short until I added this line
It's too big for me and is sadly going back.
Don't get me wrong, the screen is lush and ideal for lots of things but I'm struggling with any keyboard I've tried. Think my hands are too small! Also scared it's going to slip out of my hands.
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Because I get my cell service through work. If I switch it means I pay for it. I would pay for the phone if it was compatible with T-Mobile. I could really use a new phone too, so I'm hoping someone else comes out with a similar type phone.
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I am using it on T-Mobile. Wondering if the modem changer I used with my Galaxy Tab will give me 3G .. I really don't care if it does or does not ..
Yes
Best phone....
yes best phone because size matters
n25philly said:
Because I get my cell service through work. If I switch it means I pay for it. I would pay for the phone if it was compatible with T-Mobile. I could really use a new phone too, so I'm hoping someone else comes out with a similar type phone.
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I am using it on T-Mobile. Wondering if the modem changer I used with my Galaxy Tab will give me 3G .. I really don't care if it does or does not ..
So today i seen a review of the new kyocera rise. Whats very baffling is that the rise has the same specs of the epic and yet it has 4.0? its a shame that samsung has to lie to us.
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So today i seen a review of the new kyocera rise. Whats very baffling is that the rise has the same specs of the epic and yet it has 4.0? its a shame that samsung has to lie to us.
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what did they lie to us about ?
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Samsung never stated our phone cant run 4.0 It needed to run mtd and there would have been too many issues with that official update. Get yo facta str8 gangsta
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johnp1991 said:
So today i seen a review of the new kyocera rise. Whats very baffling is that the rise has the same specs of the epic and yet it has 4.0? its a shame that samsung has to lie to us.
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Besides, forget specs, it was 100% an economical decision. Why allocate dev hours to a 2+ year old phone that isn't selling on store shelves any more?
Nah, this is some McBullshiz. Hehe.
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Nah, this is some McBullshiz. Hehe.
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Amen.. lol
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johnp1991 said:
So today i seen a review of the new kyocera rise. Whats very baffling is that the rise has the same specs of the epic and yet it has 4.0? its a shame that samsung has to lie to us.
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not the same specs, the Rise is using a Snapdragon with worse CPU and GPU performance. hahah, just sayin'
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Besides, forget specs, it was 100% an economical decision. Why allocate dev hours to a 2+ year old phone that is selling on store shelves any more?
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I assume you meant isn't, but sprint. Com is still selling our phone. For the same price as the galaxy nexus with new 2 yr agreement. lol.
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Bubble now burst
Samsung only promised owners of the SPH-D700 (Epic 4G) ... wait for it ...
Froyo
Everything beyond Froyo was lagniappe. Threads such as this are pointless.
Grompy said:
I assume you meant isn't, but sprint. Com is still selling our phone. For the same price as the galaxy nexus with new 2 yr agreement. lol.
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Haha, you're right =] ...on both accounts
However, does it really and truly matter? We have 4.0, we have 4.1 as well as others. Why? Because of the developers in this community that keep our phone from fading away. Who cares if it's official or not. If it was, don't ya think it would probaly be loaded down with bloatware and nonsense to begin with? Official means more stuff i gotta delete to make room for apps i will use! lol.. Just my thoughts on the thing. I love my OG Epic.
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However, does it really and truly matter? We have 4.0, we have 4.1 as well as others. Why? Because of the developers in this community that keep our phone from fading away. Who cares if it's official or not. If it was, don't ya think it would probaly be loaded down with bloatware and nonsense to begin with? Official means more stuff i gotta delete to make room for apps i will use! lol.. Just my thoughts on the thing. I love my OG Epic.
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No doubt, I have a buddy that went from his Evo, to an iPhone 4s, to a Nexus, and now back to a 4s (work required him to switch this time).
I told him I was running Jelly and he didn't say anything at first until he remembered I'm still rockin' the Epic 4G, then he flipped. Haha he said "my theory is that you'll have that phone the rest of your life". Maybe he's right =]
Just hoping something fails before December so I can make claim for a new refurb before my insurance expires =]
What is BS about our phone & samsuck. Is the fact the GPS is kinda useless. GPS will not work/get lock outside of CDMA coverage. IMA that makes GPS useless! Drive from New York to LA & tell me that its all 100% CDMA covered:banghead:
Not to mention if you take your epic out of North America and want to use the ****ing GPS on it your **** outta luck
**** SAMSUCK!! I love this phone but I still have NOT BOUGHT one thing samsung after finding out the GPS is just totaly ****ed on our phone & there seems to be no fixing it with software.
Rocking cm9.1
zman519 said:
What is BS about our phone & samsuck. Is the fact the GPS is kinda useless. GPS will not work/get lock outside of CDMA coverage. IMA that makes GPS useless! Drive from New York to LA & tell me that its all 100% CDMA covered:banghead:
Not to mention if you take your epic out of North America and want to use the ****ing GPS on it your **** outta luck
**** SAMSUCK!! I love this phone but I still have NOT BOUGHT one thing samsung after finding out the GPS is just totaly ****ed on our phone & there seems to be no fixing it with software.
Rocking cm9.1
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Actually there is a fix for this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21339400 I see you've posted there, did that not work for you?
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No doubt, I have a buddy that went from his Evo, to an iPhone 4s, to a Nexus, and now back to a 4s (work required him to switch this time).
I told him I was running Jelly and he didn't say anything at first until he remembered I'm still rockin' the Epic 4G, then he flipped. Haha he said "my theory is that you'll have that phone the rest of your life". Maybe he's right =]
Just hoping something fails before December so I can make claim for a new refurb before my insurance expires =]
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Speaking of the 4S; did anyone happen to read the Gizmodo article on the Apple employee manual?
http://gizmodo.com/5938323/how-to-be-a-genius-this-is-apples-secret-employee-training-manual
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Actually there is a fix for this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21339400 I see you've posted there, did that not work for you?
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No that does NOT WORK! I did a lot of testing with that.
If you Jam the radio bands for CDMA you can not & will not get a GPS lock. Samsung sucks ass! I mean how about if WiFi or bluetooth just refused to work out of CDMA coverage zones!
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No that does NOT WORK! I did a lot of testing with that.
If you Jam the radio bands for CDMA you can not & will not get a GPS lock. Samsung sucks ass! I mean how about if WiFi or bluetooth just refused to work out of CDMA coverage zones!
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It works... used it out camping when I had no coverage and gps worked great... it was a while ago, but I seem to remember having to reboot a few times to actually get a connection... sorry it didn't work for you...
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If you are say out on Lake Michigan or the Ocean or you have the Epic 4G with in a Jamming field of CDMA bands used in the U.S. the GPS is rendered useless. That is proof that the GPS is somehow tied to the cell radio reception and is not an independent true Sat based GPS.
Samsuck ****ed it up totally & never admitted it's falt:banghead: IMA its wrong to say the SPH-D700 Has GPS the Epic 4G's GPS is only going to work in parts of the world that have CDMA so forget trying to use this thing some day as a backup nav unit on a boat, survival bag, in the middle of bum **** NV or AK WI or Off shore, maybe an Oil rig or a fishing boat to log you fishing trip fun in the golf.
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MeetFace said:
Besides, forget specs, it was 100% an economical decision. Why allocate dev hours to a 2+ year old phone that isn't selling on store shelves any more?
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HD2?
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HD2?
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He's saying for samsung not xda devs. Htc never did anything for android on the hd2.
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Hi,
Does anyone knows what the s4 will be released in the U.S.?
The carriers and Samsung.....
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The carriers and Samsung.....
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Don't have to post a dumb answer.
Btw OP, I'm guessing sometime in April.
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Reviewers said:
Don't have to post a dumb answer.
Btw OP, I'm guessing sometime in April.
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It wasn't a dumb answer. It's the correct answer. Not my fault you can't understand the difference.
I hear at&t gets it first around the end of april. The rest follow suit in early may.
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I hear at&t gets it first around the end of april. The rest follow suit in early may.
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AT&T might have awful customer service, but things like this are the reasons I stick around. AT&T seems to be very happy with the sales of the Galaxy devices and is becoming pretty fair with their updates, so it doesn't surprise me that they'll probably get the S4 first. Also, I'm sure that Samsung loves AT&T.
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jtc276 said:
AT&T might have awful customer service, but things like this are the reasons I stick around. AT&T seems to be very happy with the sales of the Galaxy devices and is becoming pretty fair with their updates, so it doesn't surprise me that they'll probably get the S4 first. Also, I'm sure that Samsung loves AT&T.
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I just switched to at&t from tmobile and i love them. Great service so far.
I know it will become available sometime in the middle of April. I'm waiting to get my hands on it to play with it
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ddavis300 said:
I know it will become available sometime in the middle of April. I'm waiting to get my hands on it to play with it
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For u.s at&t? Does anyone have an idea of the 2 year contract price? Im guessing it will be around 249.99?
j510 said:
For u.s at&t? Does anyone have an idea of the 2 year contract price? Im guessing it will be around 249.99?
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I believe on contract it will be $200. Or has things changed because of the LTE.
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I believe on contract it will be $200. Or has things changed because of the LTE.
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If it is 200 thats even better. Im not sure about lte pricing myself. About to upgrade from s2
I dropped AT&T after 10+ years when they refused to offer Android because they had their noses up Steve Jobs' sphincter.
But I went to T-Immobile which was a real mess.
Am on Verizon now, but will be back to AT&T for the S4 so I can have an unlocked global phone. No more CDMA for me. And there is no way in Hell that I would ever lock myself into a contract. Kind of like playing Russian Roulette just to drive a car you can't really save for.
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200 is expected...
trolol and awayyy!! Expect typos this is my phone.
Wow
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It wasn't a dumb answer. It's the correct answer. Not my fault you can't understand the difference.
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I literally joined the forum to let you know what a douche you are. It's miserable losers like you that make reading forums so painful. You think you're being cute, but FYI, you're not. You get called out for being an an obnoxious tool, but instead of fading away you decide to reply with something even douchier. Just stop.
You are not funny, so stop trying.
GrowUp said:
I literally joined the forum to let you know what a douche you are. It's miserable losers like you that make reading forums so painful. You think you're being cute, but FYI, you're not. You get called out for being an an obnoxious tool, but instead of fading away you decide to reply with something even douchier. Just stop.
You are not funny, so stop trying.
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Actually, this whole thread is useless. Anyone care to present empirical information? Or more fodder bucket consisting of conjecture and heresay five degrees removed?
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Of course verizon will be the last with locked bootloader
But I love unlimited unthrottled LTE
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Whenever we go in to ATT store i run Speedtest on one of their 4g phones- usually around 8mb. Then i run it on my VZW and it's like 18mb. So i think verizon wins in that category.
GrowUp said:
I literally joined the forum to let you know what a douche you are. It's miserable losers like you that make reading forums so painful. You think you're being cute, but FYI, you're not. You get called out for being an an obnoxious tool, but instead of fading away you decide to reply with something even douchier. Just stop.
You are not funny, so stop trying.
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Then you need to get a life. My answer is the correct answer. Only Samsung and the carriers know for sure.
It wasn't meant to be a 'dumb' answer. Unfortunately, some people on the internet, yourself included, seem to have a comprehension problem.
Baldilocks said:
Then you need to get a life. My answer is the correct answer. Only Samsung and the carriers know for sure.
It wasn't meant to be a 'dumb' answer. Unfortunately, some people on the internet, yourself included, seem to have a comprehension problem.
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Please people just stop leave
it alone it didn't have to go this far
GrowUp said:
I literally joined the forum to let you know what a douche you are. It's miserable losers like you that make reading forums so painful. You think you're being cute, but FYI, you're not. You get called out for being an an obnoxious tool, but instead of fading away you decide to reply with something even douchier. Just stop.
You are not funny, so stop trying.
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Whoa same as above
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